International Activities In Nursing
In Europe we now have 12 Socrates 
contracts allowing both student and teacher mobility.
However our main activity within Europe is through the membership of COHEHRE (the Consortium of Institutes of Higher Education in Health and Rehabilitation In Europe ). It is through the projects and activities of Cohehre ie joint curriculum/course development and educational research. Current areas of involvement are the ICHCI course, cultural awareness course and the complimentary therapy course. Professor Iain Graham is President of Cohehre.
Other European links are developing with Uppsala University Sweden (Public Health and Advanced Practice) Tallin, Medical College, Estonia (Public Health Nursing), and a potential development in Sarajevo, Bosnia.
Other European activity is being realised through the membership of the Florence Network for Nursing and Midwifery and the Federation of Nurse Educators in Europe (F.I.N.E.). Professor Kate Galvin and Les Todres are leading an initiative in research collaboration with the University of Vaxjo Sweden . The field of this research is into life-world research.
In North America we have a long established relationship with the School of Nursing at Vanderbilt University Nashville, Tennessee . Through the relationship we have student and staff exchange and mutual work on curriculum development at Masters (advanced Practice) and Doctorate level. The other key relationship is the University of Western Kentucky, Bowling Green . An emerging relationship is also developing with PACE University, New York and City University, New York in the area of doctorate education. HSC is also a founding member of I.N.D.E.N. (International network for Doctorate Education) and is involved with the I.N.C.M.C.E (disaster management). These activities are lead by Professor Kate Galvin. Professor Dawn Freshwater is leading a master class development with the University of Texas, Houston.
Memorial University, Newfoundland, Canada has a long standing relationship with Bournemouth University and students and staff from HSC have had exchanges with that University.
In Australia Professor Philip Darbyshire at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia is a visiting professor. The main partner for HSC in Australia is Edith Cowan University in Perth Western Australia . It is with this University that various activities are being planned and staff exchanges have taken place. This relationship is led by Professor Dawn Freshwater.
Over the last five years HSC has been successful in receiving educational grants from the European Commission.
Between 1999-2003 the EU-USA project intercultural competence of the healthcare work force took place. Currently an EU-Canada project is running looking at Public Health in rural areas.
Over the last ten years student exchange in nursing as grown considerably with nursing students seeking overseas placements not only in the Commonwealth, the USA and Europe but Nepal, China and Middle East. The student placement officer aims to please in this regard.
Finally it is worth mentioning that an emerging area of work is developing with Nursing due to the links between HSC and Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI). This is an honours society which seeks to explore and develop nursing scholarship in the fields of knowledge, service, and leadership.
- City University, New York
- Consortium of Institutes of Higher Education in Health and Rehabilitation In Europe
- Edith Cowan University in Perth Western Australia
- European Federation of Nurse Educators
- Florence Network for Nursing and Midwifery
- Memorial University, Newfoundland, Canada
- PACE University, New York
- Tallin, Medical College, Estonia
- Sigma Theta Tua International
- UK Socrates-Erasmus
- University of Vaxjo Sweden
- Uppsala University Sweden
- Vanderbilt University Nashville, Tennessee
- Western Kentucky, Bowling Green
